He was taken way too soon but his memory will live on forever, i promise sweet baby, the Love of my life, I miss. As my mom's friend who brought life back to her after my parent's divorced. I will always remember Rachel's kindness and her smile. Hank Kearney. Hank Moody may be a talented author, despite his gift of the gab, especially for live seducing, his private life is a mess. James McAvoy, Tom Wilkinson, Evan Rachel Ward, Kevin Kline. Left him to be with another man. When Emily announces that she's filing for divorce, Cal finds himself awkwardly thrust into the dating scene and begins.
Californication is an American that premiered on on August 13, 2007. The show was created. The protagonist, , is a troubled novelist whose move to California coupled with his writer's block complicate his relationships with his long time girlfriend Karen and daughter Becca, and was based on the life of. citation needed Californication's other main characters are Karen van der Beek , Rebecca 'Becca' Moody , Charlie Runkle , Marcy Runkle , and Mia Cross. The show has been nominated and won several awards including winning one (nominated for two others) and one (nominated for three others). Californication has aired for three complete seasons. The third season began airing on September 27, 2009 and received a 57% increase in ratings.
Californication Season 2 Episode 8 Loading Time: Average Host: megavideo Submited: 27 April 2009 Download in High Definition with Vuze. After picking up a younger woman in a bookstore and eventually having sex with her, Hank finds out that she is actually Bill's 16-year-old daughter, Mia. Hank spends most of his time drinking and not writing.
Meanwhile, Mia continues to harass Hank during his visits to his family; she uses the threat of exposing his illegal sex with her as leverage to extort stories from him (that she passes off as her own) for her high school creative-writing class. The death of Hank's father triggers an alcohol-fueled binge and a sexual encounter with Karen. Charlie loses his job due to masturbating in his office several times and becomes the paternal figure and agent of a porn star named Daisy. Charlie decides to get into the porn industry and finances the porn movie Vaginatown, starring Daisy.
Marcy goes into rehab for her cocaine addiction and Charlie starts an affair with Daisy. Hank proposes to Karen on the night that they discover that Hank could be the father of Sonja's child. Karen says no after hearing the news about Sonja's baby, and Karen decides that she and Hank can't be together, leading Hank to go back to his old ways and continuing the show's centrality on clandestine sexuality. Hank finishes Ashby's biography. Charlie ends up working in a BMW dealership in.
Sonja's baby is born and turns out to be black, making it clear that Hank cannot be the father. Hank and Karen are slowly starting to get together again. Karen then gets offered a job in New York and Hank is happy to go back to New York with her, but when Damien apologizes to Becca and the two get back together again, Hank decides it would be wrong to take Becca out of Los Angeles.
He decides to stay, while Karen starts her job in New York. The season closes with Karen's plane leaving for New York and Hank and Becca walking on the Venice boardwalk. In the final episode of the season, Hank has recurring nightmares by which he is afloat in a pool, drinking heavily, talking to the women he has recently slept with, who are naked, swimming around him. Both Karen and Becca are on the side of the pool watching. In reality, Mia returns to Hank's home, and offers the family an invitation to go to the media launch of the paperback version of her book. At the afterparty, Hank meets Mia's new boyfriend, who is also her manager.
He knows of the history between Mia and Hank, and offers Hank a way out by coming clean to the press about the novel and how it came about. However, Hank is unwilling to do so as it will affect Karen and Becca. Upon another meeting, the two men break into a fight, after which Mia's boyfriend threatens to call the police.
Hank leaves and goes home to Karen and tells her his secret that he slept with Mia, to which Karen breaks down uncontrollably. The argument breaks out onto the street, and as Hank attempts to console Karen who is still hysterical, a police car arrives on the scene, two officers step out and when one of them grabs Hank from behind Hank lashes out and hits one of them. He is then bundled into the back of the car as Becca runs to try and stop the police. He is taken away, leaving Becca and Karen alone on the street. The final scene shows a dream sequence of Hank in the pool again, heavily drinking out of the bottle.
He falls from his seat and drops his drink, and the last shot shows Hank sinking, with the bottle remaining in shot. Recurring characters. Bill Cross - Karen's fiancee and Hank's nemesis in season 1. Sonja - Karen's friend and Hank's one-night stand. Had a child at the end of Season 2, with Hank initially believed to be the father. Dani - Charlie's former assistant turned ambitious agent. Lew Ashby - Hank's friend, record producer and topic of one of Hank's books.
Daisy - Charlie's porn star client and later his extramarital lover. Michelle (Surfer Girl) - Hank's friend. Beatrice (Trixie) - prostitute; has sex with Hank. Ronny Praeger - Porn director and Charlie's business partner in the 'Vaginatown' movie (Four episodes of Season 2). Julian - Hank's Season 2 nemesis, Sonja's spiritual guru and love-interest (Six episodes of Season 2).
Damien Patterson (Ezra Miller) - Becca's boyfriend and the son of Mrs. Patterson, her English teacher (Five episodes). The critical reaction for Californication has been generally favorable, with a rating of 70 on Metacritic. However there has been a backlash from conservative groups who oppose the explicit nature of the program. Conservative columnist criticized the program in the Australian newspaper the, in regards to the pilot's opening dream scene in which a nun performs oral sex on Hank Moody.
The ’s managing director Jim Wallace also called for a boycott, not only of, but all advertisers who advertise during the show, in response to a scene in which Hank and Sonja smoke marijuana, have sex and subsequently both vomit. When Network Ten premiered Season 2 on October 5, 2008, the Christian fundamentalist group Salt Shakers led an e-mail campaign against advertisers, requesting they withdraw their advertisements. Californication Season 2 Episode 1 Loading Time: Slow Host: youku Submited: 15 October 2008 Download in High Definition with Vuze. Region 1 DVD name Release date Ep # Additional information Californication - The 1st Season June 17, 2008 12 This two-disc box set includes all 12 episodes of Season 1.
Bonus features include commentaries on the pilot, biographies of the 5 main actors and 16 photos from the show. Showtime has also provided four downloadable episodes, two from Dexter Season 2 and two from The Tudors Season 2. Californication - The 2nd Season August 25, 2009 12 This two-disc box set includes all 12 episodes of Season 2.
Bonus features include interviews with cast members and Marcie's Waxing Salon. Showtime has also provided four downloadable episodes, one from The United States of Tara Season 1 and three from The Tudors Season 3. Region 4 DVD name Release date Ep # Additional information Californication - The 1st Season June 18, 2008 12 This two-disc box set includes all 12 episodes of Season 1. Bonus features include commentaries on the pilot, as well as with the cast. Californication - The 2nd Season August 18, 2009 12 This three-disc box set includes all 12 episodes of Season 2.
Bonus features include 'Heart, Balls & Swagger' Interviews, Name That Girl, Marcy's Wax Salon, 'Caliwood' Bubble Map, Cast Bios and Filmographies and a Photo Gallery. The filed a lawsuit on November 19, 2007 against Showtime Networks over the name of the series, which is also the name of the band's 1999 and hit. They state in the lawsuit that the series 'constitutes a false designation of origin, and has caused and continues to cause a likelihood of confusion, mistake, and deception as to source, sponsorship, affiliation, and/or connection in the minds of the public'. Pointing to Dani California, a character who appears in both the series and three songs by the Red Hot Chili Peppers (including Californication) as well as confusion when shopping for their album and that of the series soundtrack, the band members are seeking unspecified damages.
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They are also requesting that a new name be found for the TV show. 'Successful songs, albums and movies can become brands in themselves. What's really surprising is how few songs and albums are properly protected,' said Walker. 'The Chili Peppers could almost certainly have registered a trade mark for 'Californication', notwithstanding Time's article. They made the word famous, but it doesn't automatically follow that they can stop its use in a TV show.' 'If they had registered the title as a trade mark covering entertainment services, I very much doubt we'd have seen a lawsuit.
The TV show would have been called something else,' he said. 'As it is, the band faces an uphill struggle. Some references to modern pop-culture include: the titles of Hank's novels named in the show are taken from American thrash metal band 's albums. These are:, and of course the main novel in the show,. Charlie also stated that the bathroom of his house was the only place that had been spared of he and Marcy's ', or the only place they had not had sex.
Unholy Alliance was the name of a tour by Slayer. Twice in the first season, the wait for Hank's new novel is compared to the wait for the latest album, which took over a decade to be released. The music of also plays a significant role in the series. Many of his songs appear in the show, including 'Mohammed's Radio', 'My Shit's Fucked Up', and 'Keep Me In Your Heart'. 's cover of 'Reconsider Me' makes an appearance, as does 'Don't Let Us Get Sick', as performed by Becca Moody's band. There are also nods to Zevon's music in the characters' dialogue, including the phrases 'life'll kill ya', 'porcelain monkey' and 'excitable boy'.
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at. Californication Genre Created by Starring Opening theme 'Main Title Theme From Californication' by Tree Adams & Country of origin United States No. Of seasons 3 No. Of episodes 36 Production Executive producer(s) Location(s) Running time Approximately 28 minutes per episode Broadcast Original channel Original run August 13, 2007 – present External links Californication is an American that premiered on on August 13, 2007. The show was created. The protagonist, , is a troubled novelist whose move to California, coupled with his, complicates his relationships with his long time girlfriend Karen and daughter Becca.
Californication's other main characters are Charlie Runkle , Marcy Runkle , and Mia Cross. The show has been nominated and won several awards, including winning one (nominated for two others) and one (nominated for three others).
Californication has aired for three complete seasons. Due to strong ratings for the third season premiere, Showtime renewed the show early for a fourth season. Season four began filming in April 2010 and will premiere January 10, 2011 at 9:00PM Central Time. Main page: The series revolves around Hank Moody, a charming ladies' man of a writer and novelist plagued by personal demons. He blames his years-long case of writer's block on a variety of reasons, ranging from the of Los Angeles to his girlfriend Karen leaving him. Hank constantly deals with the consequences of his lack of will to say 'no' to available drugs, sex and alcohol, while trying to show his family that he can be a good, responsible caring father to Becca and a monogamous partner to Karen.
The show was renewed for a second season on September 7, 2007. The season 1 finale, titled ', originally aired on Showtime on October 29, 2007. Season 2 began filming in April 2008, and was underway as of June 2008. The premiere episode of season 2 aired September 28, 2008.
The first season was released on DVD in the US on June 17, 2008. Showtime renewed Californication for a third season, which premiered on Sunday September 27, 2009 at 10PM. Main page: Season 1 (August 13-October 29, 2007) followed Hank and the other main characters in the months leading up to Karen's planned marriage to Bill, a Los Angeles publisher. Hank is wallowing deep in self-loathing following the release of A Crazy Little Thing Called Love, which he perceives as a low-quality (yet commercially popular) movie adaptation of his most recent novel, God Hates Us All. After picking up a younger woman in a bookstore and eventually having sex with her, Hank finds out that she is actually Bill's 16-year-old daughter, Mia. Hank spends most of his time drinking and not writing. Meanwhile, Mia continues to harass Hank during his visits to his family.
She uses the threat of exposing his with her as leverage to extort stories from him that she passes off as her own for her high school creative-writing class. The death of Hank's father triggers an alcohol-fueled binge and a sexual encounter with Karen. After his father's funeral, Hank stays in New York to finish a for a new. However, upon returning to L.A., he believes the original copy to be lost when he is carjacked. Mia, however, had previously copied the original and takes credit for it herself. On Karen and Bill's wedding day, Hank chooses to accept the way things are; but, as he leaves the reception with his daughter Becca, Karen runs out and jumps into his car, presumably to re-start their life together.
Main page: In Season 2 (September 28-December 14, 2008), the newly reunited couple of Hank and Karen seems to be working out, their house is on the market, and Becca seems happy again. Hank gets a and attends a party invited by Sonja, a woman he had sex with in Season 1. A mistake and a fight with an obnoxious police officer lands Hank in jail, where he meets Lew Ashby, world-famous record producer, who commissions Hank to write his biography. Charlie loses his job because of masturbating in his office several times and becomes the paternal figure and agent of a porn star named Daisy. Charlie decides to get into the and finances the porn movie Vaginatown, starring Daisy.
Marcy goes into rehab for her, and Charlie starts an affair with Daisy. Hank proposes to Karen on the night they discover Hank could be the father of Sonja's child, and Karen says, 'No'. Karen decides she and Hank can't be together, leading Hank to go back to his old ways and continuing the show's centrality on clandestine sexuality. Hank moves in with Ashby, who starts a romance with Mia (much to Hank's dismay).
Becca finds a boyfriend named Damien. Mia's book becomes a hit; and Ashby holds a party in its honor, where Damien cheats on Becca and Charlie decides to divorce Marcy to get together with Daisy.
After the party, Hank sees that Ashby's old girlfriend (The One That Got Away) has finally showed up to see Lew. When Hank goes upstairs to get him, Ashby dies after snorting heroin, which he had mistaken for cocaine. Hank finishes Ashby's biography. Charlie ends up working in a dealership in. Sonja's baby is born and is biracial, making it clear that Hank cannot be the father.
Hank and Karen are slowly starting to get together again. Karen is offered a job in New York; and Hank is happy to go back to New York with her; but, when Damien apologizes to Becca and the two get back together again, Hank decides it would be wrong to take Becca out of Los Angeles. He decides to stay, while Karen starts her job in New York.
The season closes with Karen's plane leaving for and Hank and Becca walking on the Venice boardwalk. Season Three. Main page: The critical reaction for Californication has been generally favorable, with a rating of 70 on Metacritic.
American critic gave Season 1 an 'F' rating on, calling it 'insufferable.' There has been a backlash from conservative groups who oppose the explicit nature of the program. Conservative columnist criticized the program in the Australian newspaper the for the pilot's opening dream scene, in which a nun performs oral sex on Hank Moody in a church. The ’s managing director Jim Wallace also called for a boycott, not only of, but all advertisers who advertise during the show, in response to a scene in which Hank and Sonja smoke marijuana, have sex, and vomit.
When Network Ten premiered Season 2, the Christian fundamentalist group Salt Shakers led an e-mail campaign against advertisers, requesting they withdraw their advertisements. This resulted in 49 companies withdrawing their advertising, including the show's main sponsor, Just Car Insurance. The show premiered in New Zealand amidst controversy about issues raised by the conservative lobby group Family First. The group called for families to boycott any company advertising during the episode, which it described as 'drug-, sex-, and vomit-laden.' The show and the lead actor, David Duchovny, were both nominated for in 2007; Duchovny won the lead actor award, but the award for best TV series in this category went to. DVD release Region 1 DVD name Release date Ep # Additional information June 17, 2008 12 This two-disc box set includes all 12 episodes of Season 1.
Bonus features include commentaries on the pilot, biographies of the 5 main actors and 16 photos from the show. Showtime has also provided four downloadable episodes, two from Dexter Season 2 and two from The Tudors Season 2. August 25, 2009 12 This two-disc box set includes all 12 episodes of Season 2. Bonus features include interviews with cast members and Marcie's Waxing Salon. Showtime has also provided four downloadable episodes, one from The United States of Tara Season 1 and three from The Tudors Season 3.
November 9, 2010 12 This two-disc box set includes all 12 episodes of Season 3. Region 2 DVD name Release date Ep # Additional information June 16, 2008 12 This two-disc box set includes all 12 episodes of Season 1. The bonus features in the UK release included an of the, as well as with the cast and director.
August 10, 2009 12 This three-disc box set includes all 12 episodes of Season 2. Bonus features include interviews with the cast and the show’s writer Tom Kapinos and a never-before-seen featurette. Region 4 DVD name Release date Ep # Additional information June 18, 2008 12 This two-disc box set includes all 12 episodes of Season 1. Bonus features include commentaries on the pilot, as well as with the cast. August 18, 2009 12 This three-disc box set includes all 12 episodes of Season 2. Bonus features include 'Heart, Balls & Swagger' Interviews, Name That Girl, Marcy's Wax Salon, 'Caliwood' Bubble Map, Cast Bios and Filmographies and a Photo Gallery. August 17, 2010 12 This three-disc box set includes all 12 episodes from Season 3.
Bonus features include: Campus Tour, Casting Couch, Guest Relations, Marcy's Pajama Party, Sounds of Californication, 'OMG! Is That Rick Springfield?' And Pamela Adlon's Video Diary. Lawsuit The filed a lawsuit on November 19, 2007 against Showtime Networks over the name of the series, which is also the name of the band's 1999 and hit. They state in the lawsuit that the series 'constitutes a false designation of origin, and has caused and continues to cause a likelihood of confusion, mistake, and deception as to source, sponsorship, affiliation, and/or connection in the minds of the public'.
Pointing to Dani California, a character who appears in both the series and three songs by the Red Hot Chili Peppers (including Californication) as well as confusion when shopping for their album and that of the series soundtrack, the band members are seeking unspecified damages. They are also requesting that a new name be found for the TV show. Showtime Networks is expected to argue that the band did not in fact create the term. They point out that the term appeared in print in in 1972, in an article called The Great Wild Californicated West. Canadian art-rock band the released an album called in 1992, with a song called 'California Dreamline'.
In this song, the word Californication appears in the phrase 'Californication, spooning in the dry sand'. Kim Walker, head of intellectual property at, states that the band should have registered Californication as a.
Instead, the only application for such was filed in April 2007 in the US, by Showtime. The mark has not yet been registered. Walker has also stated: Successful songs, albums and movies can become brands in themselves.
What's really surprising is how few songs and albums are properly protected. The Chili Peppers could almost certainly have registered a trade mark for 'Californication', notwithstanding Time's article. They made the word famous, but it doesn't automatically follow that they can stop its use in a TV show. If they had registered the title as a trade mark covering entertainment services, I very much doubt we'd have seen a lawsuit. The TV show would have been called something else.
As it is, the band faces an uphill struggle. In the, character names and titles of works are only subject to trademark protection, not copyright protection. The legal matter remains unresolved. Viewership The Season 2 finale drew 615,000 viewers, with a combined total of 937,000 for the evening, retaining less than 50% of its lead-in from the season finale of. However, Season 3 steadily gained viewership, and the show was quickly picked up for a fourth season by Showtime. Popular culture references The titles of Hank's novels are taken from the albums of the metal band. These are:, ' Seasons In The Abyss', and the main novel in the show,.
The movie adaptation of 'God Hates Us All' is named 'A Crazy Little Thing Called Love', a reference to a song. Charlie also stated that the bathroom of his house was the only place that had been spared his and Marcy's 'Unholy Alliance', or the only place they had not had sex. Was the name of a tour by Slayer. In Season 3 Hank tells Richard Bates, also an author, that he enjoyed his book Crack the Sky, a reference to 2009 album. Twice in Season 1, the wait for Hank's new novel is compared to the wait for the latest album, which took over a decade to be released.
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Several (if not all) of the episode titles are references to songs or albums by famous rock bands. For instance, the first episode of season 2 is named Slip of the Tongue, which is the name of a album, and the first episode of season 3 is called Wish You Were Here, a song. Referenced in the Drake song 'Say Something' where Drake says 'let's sit and drink wine and watch Californication' The music of also plays a significant role in the series. Many of his songs appear in the show, including 'Mohammed's Radio', 'My Shit's Fucked Up', and 'Keep Me In Your Heart'. 's cover of 'Reconsider Me' makes an appearance, as does 'Don't Let Us Get Sick', as performed by Becca Moody's band.
There are also nods to Zevon's music in the characters' dialogue, including the phrases ', 'Porcelain Monkey' and '. In Season 2, Hank Moody describes his ritual for finishing a book as 'whiskey, weed, and Warren Zevon.' Also, in the Season 3 finale, the version of ' plays in the opening scene.
Is referenced in Season 3. Episode 3 is titled ', the title of a Chapin album; and Episode 10 is entitled ', the title of a Chapin song. 'Dogtown' is also a reference to the part of Santa Monica, California, where skateboarding originated. The cross logo is also spray-painted on the wall outside Hank's apartment. Many lyrics are referenced in Hank's dialogue including 'No retreat baby, no surrender' from ' and 'there are cracks, that's how the light gets in' from '. Both feature in Season 3.
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